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Re:Amazon Is Poised to Unleash a Purge of Small Wholesale Su... by rootusrootus on Tuesday May 28, 2019 @04:23PM (#20034007)
I'm definitely biased more in favor of convenience and shipping speed. But to take a recent example, I just bought something last week on eBay, and regular shipping was free, or I could upgrade to USPS Priority Mail for $9.99. For a $32 boxed set of DVDs, this triggers my rip-off sensor, even if it's not enough to really matter. And it wouldn't be two-day shipping, just priority mail. Good but not the same.

I like eBay well enough and I have my quibbles with Amazon (especially the marketplace) but they definitely have the one-click-and-you-have-it-tomorrow game nailed.

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Re:Amazon Is Poised to Unleash a Purge of Small Wholesale Su... by Trilkhai on Tuesday May 28, 2019 @05:54PM (#20034802)
USPS has increased its shipping prices quite a bit in the last several years, enough that I can (unfortunately) easily see it costing $9.99 or even more to send a box set of DVDs. Try checking the USPS shipping calculator, you might be surprised at the results.
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Re:Amazon Is Poised to Unleash a Purge of Small Wholesale Su... by jdeibele on Tuesday May 28, 2019 @08:33PM (#20035815)
You're generally right but DVDs (and books and CDs) can go media mail and that's very cheap. Like $3 for 3 pounds.

I was selling off some old PC Magazines and Bytes from when I was a teenager and was surprised that magazines aren't supposed to be shipped via media mail since they've got advertisements in them.

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Re:Amazon Is Poised to Unleash a Purge of Small Wholesale Su... by traek on Tuesday May 28, 2019 @10:52PM (#20036483)
> USPS Priority Mail for $9.99

Priority Mail != Media Mail

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Re:Amazon Is Poised to Unleash a Purge of Small Wholesale Su... by JohnFen on Tuesday May 28, 2019 @04:37PM (#20034123)
> they definitely have the one-click-and-you-have-it-tomorrow game nailed.

There's no question about that.

But personally, this isn't a big deal for me. That's one of the reasons that I've really taken to "Amazon Day" for shipping -- I rarely need something the next day, and am entirely happy to wait up to a week for my Amazon order in exchange for only having one shipment per week.

My cutoff for "too long" tends to be a week or two, depending.

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